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Sep 23, 2026
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Instead of one script, they applied for an IDN-CCT-LD in each of their local scripts.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
.jad and Devanagari approved 2011, live August 2014. then Tamil, Telugu, Gramukhi, Gujarati, Bengali, Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, plus Assamese, Kashmiri, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi variants in 2022.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
That's 1415 scripts! The .in registry created an expert IDN working group in May 2005 to cover 22 official languages.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Ram Mohan from Afilius led the technical implementation.
Marla PelletierGUEST
It's not chakra, because we say in America chakra, and it sounds like an S-H sound.
Marla PelletierGUEST
But if you look at the actual letters in Devanagari, the language of the gods, which is the, the individual characters used in the Sanskrit language, it's a ch sound, chakra, chakra.
Marla PelletierGUEST
And it's not chaakra, it's not a long A, it's chakra.
Marla PelletierGUEST
So these are just the things like you learn when you learn the language one by one.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
30 punctuation classes.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
And that label space includes things like the Devanagari Danda, which is the sentence terminating mark in a lot of index scripts.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It's not a period.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
It's its own thing, and it has its own conventions.
Rahel MusleahGUEST
But I think that's correct.
Sarah Bunin BenorHOST
correct.Okay. And my understanding is also that Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, and that Urdu is written in the Arabic script.
Sarah Bunin BenorHOST
Do you know how to read either one of those?
Rahel MusleahGUEST
Nope.
Aggie TupouHOST
Now, Hindi is one of three official languages in Fiji, reflecting the diversity of the country, with approximately 38% of Fijians identifying as Indo-Fijian.
Aggie TupouHOST
There's concern, however, over a decline in the reading and writing of the Hindi script known as Devanagari.
Aggie TupouHOST
Despite Devanagari being offered as a subject in the national curriculum, more and more Indo-Fijian students are choosing not to learn it.
Aggie TupouHOST
Former Fiji Vice Prime Minister Professor Biman Prasad has even warned the Hindi language could gradually disappear.
Aggie TupouHOST
Finau Funua spoke to Indo-Fijian Professor Rajendra Prasad from the University of the South Pacific.
Rajendra PrasadSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's one of the reasons, uh, why children are not taking Hindi.
Finau FonuaCORRESPONDENT
What would be your advice to Indo-Fijian students to, to do it?
Rajendra PrasadSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, I, I, I, I, I do, uh, expect the students, and I do tell parents about this also, that they should take Hindi at least up till the primary school, at least, uh, year eight level, so they have a basic understanding of reading and writing Devanagari.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
Build a GPT small enough to understand completely, but on a language that would actually fight back, Sanskrit.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
I have a pile of Devanagari text and an NVIDIA DGX Spark sitting on my desk.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
So why not? b key a56 rvu je embeddable equals true the goal predict the next syllable a gpt does exactly one thing given some text predict what comes next everything else chat translation reasoning is built on top of that single reflex So, my whole model is just, feed it some Sanskrit, ask it to guess the next unit, and correct it a few thousand times.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
The interesting word there is unit.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
The gotcha, a, character, is a lie.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
The classic way to build a character-level model is one line.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
This is perfect for English and a disaster for Devanagari.
HackerNoon AINARRATOR
Here's why.
Will ReitzHOST
And so the Roman alphabet kind of developed out of those earlier European alphabets, including the Greek alphabet.
Will ReitzHOST
And then in further development, there's other languages on Earth as well, such as this Indian Devanagari language, or Devanagari alphabet.
Will ReitzHOST
I don't know anything about that, to be honest with you.
Will ReitzHOST
Okay, so back to ancient Sumer.
PriyankHOST
So all of the Sanskrit derived languages and Dravidian scripts, it's not Dravidian, sorry.
PriyankHOST
Devanagari scripts that are in North India, they all follow the Western format of left to right.
PriyankHOST
I think they have got a common root as well, Indo-European.
PriyankHOST
But this translation Guruji thankfully has given us.
George MichellGUEST
has all the beliefs.
George MichellGUEST
the story but as you go in Seth you probably know as you walk into the temple there is a Sanskrit not a Sanskrit inscription in Devanagari which says the king like previous kings in the past was protected by the goddesses And Pampa is the goddess that protects him.
George MichellGUEST
So he's more or less saying, even though I'm building a temple to Rama, because Rama is very important, I'm still connected with Virupaksha and Pampi at Hampa.
George MichellGUEST
So there's all these interesting ways of connecting these cults.
Jessie EarlHOST
Well-
Lindsay EllisGUEST
Yeah, 'cause there, there was a point when I, we, me and some friends learned Quenya enough that we could, like, pass notes in it, 'cause it's, you know, it's, it's pretty similar to, like, uh, Devanagari, uh, the Hindi, Hindi scripture, which is, like, I think much easier to read than, like, Japanese, uh, w- or, you know, katakana.
Lindsay EllisGUEST
But, like, they, they're, they're quite similar.
Lindsay EllisGUEST
So it's actually, like when...